>Maybe editing /etc/modules.conf and changing the order of the modules The network manual mentioned something like what you suggest. :) We switched it using the Network Configuration Panel GUI that Redhat has built in...no reboot required? At any rate, we have two cards. If we should need to restart the network service in the future from the terminal, is it... service network restart ? Thanks, Eve Atley - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html